Field report
The death of the timeline, in three movements.
For sixteen years, the dominant unit of online life was the timeline. Now nobody scrolls one. We talked to the people who killed it, and the ones building what comes next.
For sixteen years, the dominant unit of online life was the timeline. Now nobody scrolls one. We talked to the people who killed it, and the ones building what comes next.
A working programmer's case for software with a known expiration date.
Marlowe Voss spent six years writing one instruction booklet. We asked her why.
The internet kept telling me I had a memory. It turned out to be a search engine I had been mistaking for one.
A long argument with an algorithm we're all losing, slowly, by accident.
For 41 years, Earl Greaves set type by hand. He thinks the screen is a mirror, not a window.
An accidental defense of writing things down and letting them disappear.
Sixteen interiors that don't exist on any platform. We promised not to share them.
Theo Renn talks to a working novelist who has refused archival memory for twelve years.
A reporter goes inside one of the world's largest CDN data centers and finds a kind of religion.
An angry letter to a generation of people who think publishing is a database problem.
Three months without a phone, a notebook, or a calendar. The author lost less than she expected.